In this paper, we measure market access between the United States, the EU, and Japan (the Triad), using the effect of national borders on trade patterns. We investigate overall and industry-level trends of bilateral trade openness and provide explanations for those using proxies for bilateral...

This paper develops a method of assessment of market access difficulties with an application to manufactured trade patterns between developing and developed countries. The method also offers a renewal of the assessment of the impact of regional trading arrangements. We use a micro-founded...

En el último decenio se verifica un significativo incremento de las exportaciones de varios países de América Latina y el Caribe, hacia destinos dentro y fuera de la región. Dicho incremento de los vínculos comerciales no ha estado acompañado, sin embargo, de un aumento proporcional en las...

This paper develops a method to measure difficulties in market access over a large set of industries and countries (both developing and developed), during the period 1980–2006. We use a micro-founded heterogeneous-consumers model to estimate the impact of national borders on global and...

Aprovechando un nuevo conjunto de datos que incluye el contenido tecnológico de cada producto así como su calidad, examinamos algunos aspectos del flujo del intercambio comercial entre Brasil y China y cuestionamos la postura de que el crecimiento de China implicaría una desindustrialización...

In the light of opposing views in the literature on the nature and dynamics of trade within the East Asian region, this study seeks to clarify the extent to which East Asian business activity is regionally oriented through an analysis of trade flows over the 1994--2007 period. It concludes that...

We take advantage of a novel dataset that incorporates the technological content of each product and its quality to unveil some features of Brazil-China’s trade flows and challenge the view that the emergence of China would imply the deindustrialization of Brazilian exports. We show that...

Aprovechando un nuevo conjunto de datos que incluye el contenido tecnológico de cada producto así como su calidad, examinamos algunos aspectos del flujo del intercambio comercial entre Brasil y China y cuestionamos la postura de que el crecimiento de China implicaría una desindustrialización...

We take advantage of a novel dataset that incorporates the technological content of each product and its quality to unveil some features of Brazil-China’s trade flows and challenge the view that the emergence of China would imply the deindustrialization of Brazilian exports. We show that...